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IRVING, Texas — Louisiana Tech placed a league-best seven football student-athletes on the 2016 Preseason Conference USA team, which was announced by the league office Wednesday following a vote by the conference’s 13 head coaches.

Among the seven Bulldogs selected, junior kicker Jonathan Barnes earned a share of Special Teams Player of the Year honors with Florida Atlantic senior punter Dalton Schomp, while deep snapper Darrell Travis also earned a spot on the preseason list.

DALLAS — Last spring Houston Bates graduated from the University of Illinois, and the Covington native decided to transferred Louisiana Tech to finish his final year of football eligibility closer to home.

He didn’t expect to match his career sack totals in one game and be named a bowl MVP in the process.

But that’s what Bates did Friday as his four and a half sacks and six total tackles earned him MVP honors in Tech’s Heart of Dallas Bowl win over Illinois.